I think WordPress gets pushed so much is because most of the pushers are Marketing/Design firms that are heavy on the marketing and design and light on technical knowledge and programming. To these marketing firms, they "know" WordPress. It's their hammer. So everything that a [small] business needs that's remotely related to presenting information or collecting information digitally then WordPress is their nail. I ran into a "marketing" person/company that had setup a WordPress site for an organization. I was brought in to add some more advanced functionality and technical expertise. I wanted to make use of Cloudflare and asked this person to modify their name servers to use the ones assigned by Cloudflare. They went dark. I don't think they have a clue beyond getting WordPress installed via CPanel, installing themes, adding some plugins they tend to use, and editing some things here and there via WordPress admin. That's the other thing that drives me nuts about WordPress... they are a bazillion plugins and everybody has their favorites they use to do various things. Some use plugin x for caching, some use y. Some use visual editor n, others use m... etc. It's maddening.